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On the tenth day of the same lunar month, they fast till the evening;
and this day they sacrifice a bull, and two rams, and seven lambs, and
a kid of the goats, for sins. And, besides these, they bring two kids of
the goats; the one of which is sent alive out of the limits of the camp
into the wilderness for the scapegoat, and to be an expiation for the sins
of the whole multitude; but the other is brought into a place of great
cleanness, within the limits of the camp, and is there burnt, with its
skin, without any sort of cleansing. With this goat was burnt a bull, not
brought by the people, but by the high priest, at his own charges; which,
when it was slain, he brought of the blood into the holy place, together
with the blood of the kid of the goats, and sprinkled the ceiling with
his finger seven times, as also its pavement, and again as often toward
the most holy place, and about the golden altar: he also at last brings
it into the open court, and sprinkles it about the great altar. Besides
this, they set the extremities, and the kidneys, and the fat, with the
lobe of the liver, upon the altar. The high priest likewise presents a
ram to God as a burnt-offering.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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